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Learning from Lincoln, leadership practices for school success, Harvey Alvy, Pam Robbins

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Learning from Lincoln

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Harvey Alvy, Pam Robbins

leadership practices for school success

Harvey Alvy and Pam Robbins show how the legacy of Abraham Lincoln can guide today s education leaders--principals, teachers, superintendents, and others--as they tackle large-scale challenges, such as closing the achievement gap, and everyday issues, such as communicating with constituents. The authors identify 10 qualities, attributes, and skills that help to explain Lincoln s effectiveness, despite seemingly insurmountable odds. --from publisher description

Implementing and sustaining a mission and vision with focused and profound clarity -- Communicating ideas effectively with precise and straightforward language -- Building a diverse and competent team to successfully address the mission -- Engendering trust, loyalty, and respect through humility, humor, and personal example -- Leading and serving with emotional intelligence and empathy -- Exercising situational competence and responding appropriately to implement effective change -- Rising beyond personaland professional trials through tenacity, persistence, resilience, and courage -- Exercising purposeful visibility -- Demonstrating personal growth and enhanced competence as a lifetime learner, willing to reflect on and expand ideas -- Believing that hope can become a reality -- Achieving authentic leadership in schools -- Appendix A: A chronology of Abraham Lincoln's life